Defends the Gospel of Jesus Christ and confessional Reformed Anglicanism. The term "Reformed" refers to the five solas of the Reformation and the five points of Calvinism. The Thirty-Nine Articles of Religion, 1662 Book of Common Prayer, and the Ordinal constitute the Anglican Formularies, the doctrinal standards of Anglicanism. The Lambeth Articles 1595 and Irish Articles 1615 are Reformed confessions. Isa 1:18,Rom 12:1, 2

About Me

In God's providence my doctrine has changed from Pentecostal Arminianism to Calvinism and Reformed Anglicanism. My Reformed standards are the Anglican Formularies (39 Articles of Religion, 1662 BCP, the Homilies), with the Westminster Standards and the Three Forms of Unity. Asbury Seminary, Wilmore, KY, 1995, M.Div. Southeastern University, Lakeland, Florida, 1991, B.A., Cum Laude. [Nota Bene: All e-mails to me are considered in the public domain. I reserve the right to post them on the blog. Anonymous comments may or may not be posted at the discretion of the blog owner.]
Anglo-Catholicism and Arminianism are heresies.
I view Amyraldianism as a departure from Reformed theology and I disagree with the three points of common grace and the "gracious offer". I do post or link to sites that disagree with my views at times and having those sites on my blog does not constitute an endorsement of everything said on those sites. I generally endorse the presuppositional apologetics of Gordon H. Clark.
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Martyred for the Gospel

The burning of Tharchbishop of Cant. D. Tho. Cranmer in the town dich at Oxford, with his hand first thrust into the fyre, wherwith he subscribed before. [Click on the picture to see Cranmer's last words.]

Collect of the Day

ALMIGHTY and everlasting God, who hatest nothing that thou hast made and dost forgive the sins of all them that are penitent; Create and make in us new and contrite hearts, that we, worthily lamenting our sins, and acknowledging our wretchedness, may obtain of thee, the God of all mercy, perfect remission and forgiveness; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

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Thursday, April 19, 2012

By the grace of Christ we believe in justification, and we are sure that we are justified and accounted righteous before God purely by faith in Christ. Therefore, we do not mix the law and grace, faith and works, but keep them completely separate. Every Christian should carefully maintain this difference between the law and grace, not in letters and syllables, but in practice and inner experience, so that when people say good works should be done, and the example of Christ is to be followed, we may be able to judge rightly and say, “All these things I will do gladly. But what follows from this? Will you be saved and obtain everlasting life? Not so. I agree that I ought to do good works, to suffer trouble and affliction patiently, and to shed my blood, if necessary, for Christ’s cause. But I am not justified by this, nor do I obtain salvation by it.”

We must not let good works come into the matter of justification, as do those people who say that doers of good works, even by those being punished for their sins, deserve everlasting life. These people comfort those who are brought to the place of execution, telling them they must suffer this shameful death willingly and patiently, and that if they do so, they will merit forgiveness of sins and everlasting life. What a horrible claim this is, that thieves, murderers, robbers should be so wretchedly seduced in extreme anguish and distress, that at the very point of death they should refuse the Gospel and sweet promises in Christ, which are the only thing that can bring comfort and salvation, and should be commanded to hope for pardon of their sins if they willingly and patiently endure this death for their mischievous deeds! This simply heaps destruction and perdition on people who are already most wretchedly afflicted; by giving false confidence in their own death, it leads them onto an open road to hell.

Thus such hypocrites clearly show they understand not a thing about grace, the Gospel, or Christ. Rejecting Christ, they attribute more to human traditions than to the Gospel. But Paul says we are justified only by faith in Christ, without the law. After we are justified and possess Christ by faith and know we have his righteousness and life, there is no doubt that we will not be idle but will produce good fruit just as a good tree does. Believers have the Holy Spirit, and where the Holy Spirit lives, he will not allow people to be idle but stirs them up to piety and godliness and true religion, to the love of God, to the patient suffering of affliction, to prayer, to thanksgiving, to the exercise of love toward everyone.